Purchase Friends Meeting House

Records from the Purchase Meeting House,
1789-1983

George Washington’s Letter to the Quakers, 1709

Quaker Marriage Certificates, 1859 and 1983

Photograph and Postcard of Friends’ Meeting House, ca. 1880 and ca. 1910

This contemporary copy of a letter from President George Washington to Richard Waln of the Yearly Philadelphia Meeting House was written in 1789. The purpose of the letter was to assure the Quakers that the new government of the United States would not abridge their right to practice their religion as they saw fit.

These two Quaker wedding certificates, one from 1859 and one from 1983, are important to genealogists because they document all the witnesses to the ceremony in addition to the actual participants in the ceremony. Many of the Quaker wedding certificates are works of art in themselves.

The photograph of the Purchase Meeting House was taken in 1880; the postcard shows the meeting house in 1910. The person who used the postcard notes that the meeting house was used as a hospital for wounded soldiers during the Revolutionary War.

Title	Photograph of Elizabeth Mills Reid, ca. 1877	Format	Black-and-white photograph
Repository	Charles Dawson History Center of Harrison	Number of Images	1
Collection	Photographs	Dimensions	8" x 10"
Call Number		Transcription	NA
Creator	Unknown	jpeg File Name	elizabethReid.jpg
Creation Date	ca. 1877	tif File Name	elizabethReid.tif

Records from the Purchase Meeting House, 1789-1983

George Washington’s Letter to the Quakers, 1709

Quaker Marriage Certificates, 1859 and 1983

Photograph and Postcard of Friends’ Meeting House, ca. 1880 and ca. 1910

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Records from the Purchase Meeting House,
1789-1983